Out of the harrier Gr1, Gr3, AV-8A and AV-8C. The US premium AV-8A is the best with 4x the cm count of the others. But equal in other respects to the Gr3.
Gr1 is probably the weakest of the 4 with no CMs at all
Sea harrier FRS1 and FRS1e are fairly decent at least they would be if they ever finished them.
Harrier Gr7 would be the superior ground attack aircraft over the AV-8B(NA) or AV-8B+ if they fixed outstanding bug reports like missing AGM-65 or the gen 1 Tpod. ( In GRB, in ASB, the 10x JDAM payload is a tad OP)
In air combat it holds some advantages over them with a bigger cm load and better AAMs to the AV-8B(NA) but overall weaker to the AV-8B+ due to no radar or AMRAAM.
Sea Harrier FA2 has potential to be marginally stronger than the AV-8B+ (much larger cm load and a better radar in the FA2) but it’s so poorly modeled that it’s not.
In the future the harrier Gr9A will be the superior ground attack variant.
Vampire is held by both sweden and italy, originally it was italy when it comes to CAS as it got bombs, gaijin just added another vampire with bombs via finland and also forgot the rest of their equipment.
After constantly being terrorized by the Hunter F.58, I would like to see this plane moved up to 10.0. The fact that has great missiles, countermeasures, all while facing planes that it massively out speeds, is insane. All while at the same BR as the much more limited F.6, its blatantly biased in favor of the plane that can be easily purchased.
If the Hunter F.58 went to 10.0 it would be useless since almost all common enemies have flares, and its flight performance would go from ok to quite bad.
The BRs are too compressed to move it up. It is good, but moving it up will make it quite bad. Good luck facing a Mig-21bis in it lmao.
This plane is not found in random at all, I haven’t seen it for a year, I have half-upgraded modules on it. I wrote about it on the old forum four years ago, as we see, there is no result.
They also do not see the packet mirage with the Matra Magic 2 at 12.0, it has bad flight characteristics, but the Harriers sit on 13.0 and no one cares. They also forgot about the A-10 at 11.7, which was created exclusively for joint battles and flies either to an empty field or as an appetizer. And there are many such examples, but the main thing for Gaijin is to sell 3D models for 50 dollars every couple of months, and they do not care about the rest.
I am using the F6 now in ARB to spade it for rp bonuses, but it is worst experience ever.
It is slow, it cannot turn, IR missiles explodes past 3.7 seconds, bombs are useless for bases, everything gets destroyed before I reach there. I have probably just 2 kills in 22 battles. I am literally a sitting duck hoping to kill at least a few ground units.
I will abandon it as soon as it is spaded. I hope to not loose my hairs in process and preserve mental health.
I have now played an uptier, 500% SL and RP booster activated. We had no chance, against 10.7 AMX with AIM-9L. The guy had 7 kills at the end of the match.
Now the hunter is spaded I am grounding it for good.
I have all my hair, but frustration indicator reached new levels.
Yeah, the hunter f.6 at br 9.7 (ARB) is just a new level of frustration at stock since you mostly meet br > 10 with better speed, turn, missiles and flares…
I played the Hunter F6 with SRAAMS quite a bit at 9.7 and for me it worked out fine. Uptiers can be harsh ofc. I try to use rockets as flares. Works good against frontal shots by all aspect missiles at least. The SRAAMS are kinda criminal in a downtier. However against a plane with better flight performance and with flares you are a sitting duck. Just my observations.
